Gents Mag 1854 part 1 p.512
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Gentleman's Magazine 1854 part 1 p.512
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fresco St Cuthbert Carlisle Cathedral |
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Fresco of St Cuthbert,
Carlisle
SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES. March 30. ... Dr. Augustus Guest, F.S.A. communicated an account which he had recieved from Mr. C. H. Purday, accompanying a drawing of a fresco recently discovered on the north-east pier of the central tower of Carlisle cathedral. Dr. Guest suggested that this painting was intended to represent an incident in the life of St. Cuthbert as related by Beda, where the death of St. Aidan was revealed to the holy man while tending his flocks. This explanation, however, was not considered satisfactory, inasmuch as there is no flock represented in the picture. At the head of the sleeper are two horned animals, seated in something like heraldic postures. The Almighty is appearing to him, and an angle, now partially obliterated, is making some direct communication to his ears. ... |
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